[>] created “totems”: Gurian, “Thoughts on Shirley Clarke.”
[>] “You see it”: Ibid.
[>] “like gradually being able”: Yalkut, “Electronic Zen.”
[>] “Tower Play Pen”: Gurian, “Thoughts on Shirley Clarke.”
[>] “ultimate participation”: Yalkut, “Electronic Zen.”
[>] stacks of video cameras: Halleck, Hand-Held Visions, 28.
[>] began giving workshops: Gurian, “Thoughts on Shirley Clarke.”
[>] distant from their own reality: Turner, At the Chelsea, 86.
[>] “Day by day”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 421.
[>] “joyous gathering”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 272.
[>] “I wouldn’t bother”: Mekas, Movie Journal, 421.
[>] Desoxyn, now Smith’s favored: Miles, In the Seventies, 171.
[>] “Jewish cunt”: Ibid.
[>] naked through the halls: Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Arman.”
[>] Turner’s maid service: Turner, At the Chelsea, 117.
[>] Finn he evicted: Ibid., 97.
[>] “Of course I understand”: Ibid., 115.
[>] “the Man”: Joan Schenkar, interview with the author, July 7, 2006.
[>] “four more years”: Miles, In the Seventies, 187.
[>] on the roof drinking beer: Turner, At the Chelsea, 101.
[>] had no choice: Hoffman, Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman, 285.
[>] Laura videotaped him: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] code name Hotel: Ibid.
[>] “Do whatever”: Daniel Belasco, “Barbara Rubin: The Vanished Prodigy,” Art in America (December 2005).
[>] “It’s like drumming”: Smith, Just Kids, 185.
[>] “It seemed to bring”: Ibid., 218.
[>] Broadway Central Hotel collapsed: Emory Lewis, “A Cultural Disaster,” Bergen Sunday Record, August 19, 1973.
roof of the Hotel Diplomat: Luc Sante, “The Mother Courage of Rock,” New York Review of Books, February 19, 2012.
9. Mahagonny
[>] eleven dollars a night: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 27, 2012.
[>] smashing up: Ibid.
[>] dynamite blasts: Turner, At the Chelsea, 138.
[>] pimps, prostitutes, and pushers: Ibid., 71–73.
[>] neighbors’ dogs and cats: Ibid., 62.
[>] “Makeup, darling”: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.
[>] he dropped in: Frank Cavestani, interview with the author, December 9, 2011.
[>] Lee Grant: Scott Griffin, e-mail to the author, October 20, 2007.
[>] “We all came from”: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.
[>] “Just remember”: Raymond Foye, “The Alchemical Image,” The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (exhibition catalog), September 10 to October 19, 2002.
[>] her spiritual partner: Rose Pettet, e-mail to the author, October 30, 2011.
[>] “orgiastic pleasure”: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.
[>] “There’s nothing”: Foye, “The Alchemical Image.”
[>] “My true vocation”: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 169.
[>] not paid taxes: Ibid., 143.
[>] scoop his mail: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 27, 2012.
[>] had been edited: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 274–75.
[>] In one such application: Kristene McKenna, “Last Stop, Mahagonny: Harry Smith’s Magical Mystery Tour de Force,” LA Weekly (May 22, 2002).
[>] The Bride Stripped Bare: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 109.
[>] hoped to achieve with his film: Ibid., 227.
[>] Ching Ho Cheng: “Ching Ho Cheng in Yishu: Chelsea Hotel Artist Is Subject of Revival,” Living with Legends, January 10, 2008, http://leg ends.typepad.com/living_with_legends_the_h/2008/01/this-months-yis.html.
[>] Vali Myers: Romy Ashby, “A Pageant of Old Scandinavia,” Walkers in the City, November 9, 2011, http://walkersinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/11/pageant-of-old-scandinavia.html#comment-form.
[>] “allow things to go on”: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film), produced and directed by Doris Chase, 1992.
[>] bad only when the Grateful Dead: Michael Gray, “Chelsea Hotel: Still Scuzzy After All These Years,” Weekend Telegraph (March 2001).
[>] Forman left to film: Forman and Novak, Turnaround, 206.
[>] haul garbage away: Kelly, Martin Scorsese, 96.
[>] “like an opened”: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 154.
[>] “aggressive hypocrisy”: Schumacher, Dharma Lion, 583–84.
[>] “We were so happy”: Woodlawn and Copeland, A Low Life in High Heels, 156.
[>] “Unfortunately before”: Candy Darling to “To Whom It May Concern,” March 21, 1974, in “Warholstars Condensed . . . Sort Of: Candy Darling,” warholstars.org, www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/andy/warhol/can/candy24.html.
[>] “distinguished writers” series: Miles, William Burroughs, 205.
[>] “tissue of lies”: Dave Teeuwen, “Interview with Victor Bockris on William Burroughs,” Reality Studio: A William S. Burroughs Community, http://realitystudio.org/interviews/interview-with-victor-bockris-on-william-burroughs/.
[>] kids looked brain-dead: Morgan, Literary Outlaw, 472.
[>] “My dear boy”: Heylin, Bob Dylan, 334.
[>] everyone thought alike: Jones, Machine in the Studio, 204.
evocative name: Hell, I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp, 119–21.
[>] Hilly’s defecating dog: Miles, In the Seventies, 248.
[>] “obvious creeps”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 54.
[>] “thinking that you”: Ibid., 288.
[>] “the ultimate in glamour”: Ibid., 79.
[>] Hilly told the band: A. S. Van Dorsten, “A History of Punk,” Fast ’n’ Bulbous (blog), February 20, 1990, http://fastnbulbous.com/punk/.
[>] “this babe”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 81.
[>] go-go dancer at the Metropole: Ibid., 85.
[>] “True Fairy”: Marc Almond, “Jobriath: The Man Who Fell to Earth,” Guardian, March 27, 2012.
[>] Elsa Peretti and Zandra Rhodes: Anton Perich, Night at Hotel Chelsea (video), Richard Bernstein Gallery, http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/richard-bernstein-night-at-hotel-chelsea-video-kt3eky2On5g-5933-9.html.
[>] “psychically powerful”: Chelsea Hotel (documentary film), Arena, BBC Four, 1981.
[>] “void of irresponsibility”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 85.
[>] “Almost no one”: Terry Southern, “Drugs and the Writer,” unpublished essay, http://www.terrysouthern.com/texts/t_drugs.htm.
[>] led him to threaten: Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To, 253–54.
[>] permanent brain damage: Ibid., 281–82.
[>] “precipitated a drinking”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 274.
[>] “For those who are interested”: Dixon, Exploding Eye, 152–53.
[>] “Harry-heads”: Rani Singh, interview with the author, November 12, 2009.
[>] “I said, ‘Whoopie’”: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 151.
[>] “There were all kinds”: Jonas Mekas, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] “We were both”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 2.
[>] “some systematic plan”: Ibid., 35.
[>] they could sell pieces: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 27, 2012.
[>] Billy Maynard: Turner, At the Chelsea, 140.
[>] “three chords”: Smith, Just Kids, 247.
[>] “old drunken father”: McNeil and McCain, Please Kill Me, 206.
[>] “politics of boredom”: Ibid, 190.
[>] name of the game: Geiger, Nothing Is True, 257.
[>] diamond ring: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 92.
[>] go-go dancer named Nancy: Ibid., 93.
[>] apartment on West Tw
enty-Third: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 215.
[>] oxygen deprivation: Ibid., 22.
[>] Lance Loud: Ibid., 218.
[>] “There’s really a lot”: Ibid.
[>] possibly turning a trick: Ibid., 228.
[>] Lance Loud found her: Ibid., 241.
[>] “other fuck-ups”: McNeil and McCain, Please Kill Me, 204.
[>] “McDonald’s, beer”: Ibid., 203.
[>] “everything that was humiliating”: Ibid., 207.
[>] WATCH OUT!: Ibid.
[>] “What’s punk?” Ibid., 208.
[>] “another shitty group”: Ibid.
[>] “I always thought”: Ibid.
[>] crowds started to gather: Miles, In the Seventies, 249.
[>] Sire Records offered: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 107.
[>] “I felt like”: Shaw, Patti Smith’s “Horses,” 130.
[>] “I have a lot to learn”: Tony Hiss and David McClelland, “Patti ’n’ the Record Biz,” New York Times Magazine, December 21, 1975.
[>] Clifford Irving: Turner, At the Chelsea, 137.
[>] “I’m creative with money”: Helen Dudar, “It’s Home Sweet Home for Geniuses, Real or Would-Be,” Smithsonian 14, no. 9 (December 1983): 94–107.
[>] “drank too much”: Schumacher, There But for Fortune, 313.
[>] a moving new song: Ibid., 328–29.
[>] leaving Ochs behind: Ibid., 339.
[>] tried to hang himself: Ibid., 340.
[>] “‘One’ Big Ceremony”: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 274.
[>] a “nigger”: Miles, In the Seventies, 172.
[>] pistol-whipped him: Foye, “The Alchemical Image.”
[>] the Smithsonian Institution: Miles, In the Seventies, 174.
[>] “a normal thing”: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 158.
[>] “dreadful condemnations”: Ibid., 159.
[>] “severe psychic discompensation”: Ibid., 150.
[>] “there is admittedly”: Ibid.
[>] “you have to live”: Ibid.
[>] his “living through”: Ibid., 152.
[>] “You could fish”: Ibid., 162.
[>] shadowy board of bankers: Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 149.
[>] “perfectly banal”: Mark Feeney, “William Eggleston’s Big Wheels,” Smithsonian (July/August 2011).
[>] “most hated show”: Rob Trucks, “Interview: Whitney Curator Elisabeth Sussman on William Eggleston: Democratic Camera,” Village Voice, December 18, 2008.
[>] “A picture is what it is”: Sean O’Hagan, “Out of the Ordinary,” Guardian, July 24, 2004.
[>] “give up my”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 108.
[>] crystallizing moment for punk: Ed Hamilton, “A Punk Lourdes: Bruno Wizard on Dee Dee Ramone, the Chelsea, and Early Punk Rock,” Living with Legends, September 7, 2006, http://www.chelseahotelblog.com/living_with_legends_the_h/2006/09/a_punk_lourdes_.html.
[>] “There’s Sid Vicious!”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 113.
[>] clueless and not: Hamilton, “A Punk Lourdes.”
[>] “pull the teeth”: Ibid.
[>] keep the bloodsuckers away: Ibid.
[>] “I put on”: Isabella Gardner, excerpt from “Cockchafer,” from The Collected Poems of Isabella Gardner.
[>] reputation as a “hellraiser”: O’Hagan, “Out of the Ordinary.”
[>] Sunday-night readings: Turner, At the Chelsea, 85.
[>] church-revival pianist: Gerald Busby, interview with the author, May 12, 2007.
[>] “once rather noble”: Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To, 290.
[>] “I don’t deserve”: The Foreigner, directed by Amos Poe, 1978.
[>] moral center: Miller, Timebends, 587.
[>] closed the play: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 406.
[>] “a certain death”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 51.
[>] “I’ve spent”: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 163.
[>] “well—everybody is mad”: Ibid., 133.
[>] “Mr. Bard claiming that”: Ibid., 161.
[>] “My life . . . is like”: Ibid., 141.
[>] “I would not live”: Ibid., 163.
[>] “I’m sure to take”: Ibid., 142.
[>] “the destruction of Mahagonny”: Ibid., 163.
[>] “all Stanley wanted”: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 27, 2012.
[>] “She was a pest”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 114.
[>] “a horrible blood-caked”: Ibid., 115.
[>] “Fuckin’ good food”: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 284.
[>] “one of the best”: Ramone and Kofman, Lobotomy, 117.
[>] pairing off with candles: Miles, In the Seventies, 245.
[>] taken the emergency in stride: Gerald Busby, interview with the author, May 12, 2007.
[>] Michael Richards: Lena William, “Police Question a Woman in Fire at Chelsea Hotel That Killed One Resident,” New York Times, January 15, 1978.
[>] murder at the Chelsea every year: “One Dies and Hundreds Are Routed as Blaze Damages Chelsea Hotel,” New York Times, January 14, 1978.
[>] “Chelsea Burns”: Ed Hamilton and Debbie Martin, “From the Archives: The Big Fire at the Chelsea,” Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea blog, January 13, 2006, http://www.chelseahotelblog.com/living_with_leg ends_the_h/2006/01/from_the_archiv.html.
[>] helping Ginsberg interview: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.
[>] “This is still my favorite”: Edinger, Chelsea Hotel, 39.
[>] “you pay”: Turan and Papp, Free for All, 321.
[>] “downright creepy”: Adele Bertei, “Chelsea Horror Hotel #2,” March 28, 2011, http://www.adelebertei.com/blog-3/files/archive-mar-2011.html.
[>] naked two-year-old: Gerald Busby, interview with the author, May 12, 2007.
[>] “You do not”: Francis X. Clines, “About New York: The Chelsea Is Still a Roof for Creative Heads,” New York Times, February 4, 1978.
[>] “We create a different”: Henry Shukman, “Celebrity Hotels,” Travel Intelligencer, www.travelintelligence.net">http://www.travelintelligence.net">www.travelintelligence.net.
[>] moments of communal joy: Bertei, “Chelsea Horror Hotel #2.”
[>] world was in color: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 281.
[>] that they’d married: Ibid., 266.
[>] interested in rock and roll: Hermes, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, 268.
[>] collapsed in the lobby: Ibid., 298.
[>] sold-out crowd booed: Ibid., 299.
[>] When a clerk rushed: Ibid.
[>] “very very quiet”: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film).
[>] “I think at that point”: Ibid.
[>] twenty-five-thousand-dollar royalty payment: Paul Scott, “Did Sid Really Kill Nancy? Explosive Evidence Suggests the Punk Rocker May Have Been Innocent,” Daily Mail, January 23, 2009.
[>] “important friend here”: Hotel Chelsea (documentary film).
[>] thirty tablets of Tuinal: Scott, “Did Sid Really Kill Nancy?”
[>] called himself Neon Leon: Who Killed Nancy? (documentary film), directed by Alan G. Parker, 2010.
[>] Victor Colicchio: Ibid.
[>] name was Michael: Ibid.
[>] Across the hall: Judith Childs, interview with the author, September 21, 2007.
[>] “There’s trouble”: Anthony Bruno, “Punk Rock Romeo and Juliet: Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen,” http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/sid_vicious/index.html.
[>] hunting knife: Scott, “Did Sid Really Kill Nancy?”
[>] “I killed her”: Ibid.
[>] known to beat Nancy: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 320.
[>] “I did it because”: Ibid., 324.
[>] called himself Rockets Redglare: Scott, “Did Sid Really Kill Nancy?”
[>] seen with a wad of cash: Ibid.
[>] relished killing N
ancy: Bertei, “Chelsea Horror Hotel #2.”
[>] Dazed and shaking: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 330.
[>] “fawning punks”: Miles, In the Seventies, 347.
[>] “I want to die!”: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 352.
[>] bit of female refuse: Ibid., 362.
[>] Saturday Night Live: Ibid., 347.
[>] fell in love with it for life: Ed Hamilton, “Mary Anne Rose: The Chelsea Is a Living Museum,” Living with Legends, http://legends.typepad.com/living_with_legends_the_h/2006/08/mary_ann_rose_t.html.
[>] “If I did”: Rene Ricard, “I Class Up a Joint,” New York Times, November 20, 1978.
[>] “a doctor delivering”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 234–35.
[>] mailed Stanley a check: Victor T. Cardell, Secretary to Virgil Thomson, to Mr. Knox, Hotel Chelsea, n.d., Yale University Music Library.
[>] released from Bellevue and then arrested: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 363–64.
[>] Michelle Robinson: Scott, “Did Sid Really Kill Nancy?”
[>] “I Fought the Law”: Mark Brown, “After 30 Years, a New Take on Sid, Nancy and a Punk Rock Mystery,” Guardian, January 29, 2009.
[>] “beyond good”: Ibid.
[>] Sid’s mother claimed: Scott, “Did Sid Really Kill Nancy?”
[>] “Listen, I know”: Daniel Kreps, Comment to “‘Basketball Diaries’ Author, Punk Icon Jim Carroll Dead at 60,” Rolling Stone (September 14, 2009), http://www.catholicboy.com/notices/DanielKreps_RollingStone_9-14-09.pdf.
[>] “The world felt”: Spungen, I Don’t Want to Live This Life, 358.
[>] “a moral catastrophe”: Miller, Timebends, 115.
[>] “We are artists”: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 413.
[>] “My public service”: Singh, Think of the Self Speaking, 110.
[>] Nature (N): Perchuk and Singh, Harry Smith, 42.
[>] projected in sequence: Ibid.
[>] a kind of deep structure: Ibid., 6.
[>] curator Henry Geldzahler: Ibid., 42.
[>] Smith met his deadline: Foye, “The Alchemical Image.”
[>] on his best behavior: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 27, 2012.
[>] “I still recall”: Foye, “The Alchemical Image.”
[>] “I think everyone”: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.
[>] “For if we don’t find”: Brecht, Rise and Fall, 8.
[>] and somewhat disoriented: Raymond Foye, e-mail to the author, February 26, 2012.
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